Mobile communications device, non-transitory computer-readable medium and method of configuring home screen of mobile communications device

• Main Authors: BAMFORDEW, PENICO, JESSE JOHN, YANG, CHIH-WEI, CHIN, PETER, HUANG, HUAI-TING, BRINDA, DAVID
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.04.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method of configuring and updating a home screen of a mobile communications device is provided. The home screen is configured and updated by a processor and displayed on a display panel of the mobile communications device. The method includes providing a plurality of tiles, each of the tiles displaying a feed from a corresponding one of feed sources; filling the tiles into the home screen that has a top page, one or more pages being addable immediately above the top page, each page having a layout of a plurality of slots, each of the slots being for accommodating a corresponding one of the tiles; and after an update that results in insertion of at least one new tile into the home screen occurs, placing the at least one new tile displaying a new feed on the top page, and moving at least one existing tile that was on the top page prior to the update to a new, different location of the home screen. A non-transitory computer-readable medium and a mobile communications device of configuring a home screen of a mobile communications device are also provided.